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"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
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"The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too."

"The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany."

"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."
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"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

"Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day."

"A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."


"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."


"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."


"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."


"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting."


"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."


"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
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